The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-29
NEWS IN GENERAL.
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trestle The engineer was made to pull on
until the express car was off the trestle.
Here two other masked men joined the rob
bers. The fireman and engineer were placed
under guard A dozen shots were fired into
tho express car, and the door was finally
opened by the express messenger. One rob-
Der entered and cleared out the safe, and then
went through the mail car. Every registered
letter in the car was secured by the robbers
Tho work was done in 10 minutes The train
was through express from San Francisco
The booty is placed at $50, 200, The same
train was robbed on the same trestle last
June Guards were in the passenger coach,
but they wero on the trestle. No attempt
was made to modest passengers.
Richard H. Allen & Co., bankers and cot
ton commission merchants have issued their
issue of the current cotton crop. The yield
in Arkansas will DO 10 per cent. less than last
year; Texas slightly more than last year;
Louisiana greatly damaged by worms, yet,
owing to exceptional weather early in the
season, the yield will probably be a fraction
more than last year; Tennessee will fall Oft
at least % per cent; Mississippi and Ala
bama about the same as last year; Georgia
barely as good; North and South Carolina
promise much better yields than last year.
The circular concludes: Except in few
localities, where worms are absent and where
the second growth is making, chiefly in Texas
and Louisiana, the entire crop is made
Heavy rains can only beat out open cotton,
injure grade and reduce the amount. We
estimate the crop at about 0,600O00 bales"
This circular is made up from the widest pos
sible correspondence with reliable and repre-
sentative men throughout the entire cotton
growing States, and the estimate is an aver
age based upon all reports received. On this
account it is valuable information to all who
are interested in the cotton trade
Tho Reading Coal and Iron Company
has given notice that broken and egg coal
for eastern shipment will be advanced 10
cents per ton each, to take effect at once. 1t
is also declared that there will be a general
advance in the price of anthracite coal on
The LIST of October.
President L. f. Leonard of the Toledo, Peoria
g. Western road, has filed with the state rail
road and warehouse commission an official
report of the Cbatsworth accident. The doc
ument says nothing of the circumstances
under which the train was wrecked, nor does
it attempt to locate the responsibility for the
wreck. The report estimates from the num-
Der of tickets sold, that there were $40 per-
sons on the train, of whom 50 are now dead.
The number injured is given at Isl, 10 of
whom were employees of the road. Nine en-
ployes and 1O2 passengers have recovered
from their injuries, and 30 are still under the
care of physicians. Three or four are not
rec from danger OF fatal results.
Charles E. Clinedist and g. M. Bodell were
carriage manufacturers in Staunton, Va,
under the firm name of Clinedist & Bodell.
In March last they fled to Canada, leaving
liabilities of $50 900 to SIC, 900, beside large
amount of forged papers. Detectives traced
them throughout Canada, until Clinedist was
run down at Brantford and arrested.
Bodell was arrested at Orillia, where he was
working at his trade.
The steamship State Of Indiana, which ar
rived at New York recently, brought Capt
Lawrence of the Boston ship Triumph, his
wife and children as cabin passengers, and
all of the crew as Storage passengers. The
Triumph left Liverpool on Aug. g. On the
25th she was struck by cyclone Her wire
rigging was torn loose and dashed the spars
and yards to splinters. She shipped immense
quantities of water, which dissolved her
cargo of salt and closged the pumps SO that
they would not work.
A construction train and light engine,
both moving at high rate of speed, c0llided
on the Gulf division of the Southern Kansas
railroad. Both engines and dozen freight
cars were demolished and piled in heap.
The engineer of the light engine was fatally
crushed, and his fireman was seriously hurt,
and it is reported that eight or ten worknen
on the construction train were killed or
wounded.
Citizens who have returned from San
Pedro Ari., state that all the crops on the
bottom lands between Mammoth and Benson
have been entirely destroyed by the recent
foods.
The street car drivers of Chicago have ac-
cepted a compromise of q cents per hour,
with guarantee of 10 hours work per day.
Herr Mosts organ, Der Freiheit, contains a
letter from Iingg and Engel, the condemned
Chicago Anarchists, requesting their friends
and comrades to abandon all efforts to secure
Justice for them
The business portion of Sanford, Fla, has
been burned; loss, $780, 900.
A consolidation has been effected between
the Cleveland e.; State Line, the New York,
Chicago & st. Louis and the Fort Wayne &
Illinois railroad companies. This consolida-
ton covers the right and title to the entire
Nickel Plate road, the name OF which will
hereafter be the New York, Chicago e. st.
Louis Railroad Company. A board of di-
rectors will be elected on Saturday which
will authorize the issue of 100000 first
mortgage gold bonds bearing per cent. in
terest. The new company expect to take
possession of the road in October.
Mooney. the New York dynamiter, has
been pronounced insane.
A set of Pennsylvania triplets are named
Grover, Cleveland and Frances in honor Of
the President and his wife.
A reception and banquet has been rendered
to Frederick Douglass by the colored people
at Washington
William Showers, 65 years old, was arrest
ed at Annville May II, for numbering his
two young grandsons and confessed that he
strangled them in order that he might marry
his housekeeper, Elizabeth Sergeant, the ini-
plicated woman. Showers thus escapes a
trial While his confession was being read
in court today Miss Sergeant rose, and in a
loud voice said, "Thats darned lien
The death order to the sheriff of Cook
county in the Anarchists case has been
handed down by the supreme court and is
in the hands of Sheriff Mattson.
Fire destroyed $4,000 worth Of paper
stock at Baltimore.
Hundreds of lives have been lost by the
ri sing of the Nile
A special from San Antonio, Tex. says
A posse was sent from the United States
marshals office to Rio Grande City, few
days ago,t to capture gang of smugglers who
were encamped about 80 miles from Laredo
They found the camp in the brush near the
river, and a demand for surrender was ans
wered by volley from Winchesters. A
battle ensued, resulting in the death Of foui
of the smugglers and the capture of the camp
and number of horses. The living SNUG
glers escaped by stampeding the horses and
following through Une gap IN Ine line, taxing
refuge on the Mexican side None of the
officers were hurt
The worlds conference of Quakcrs, the
third meeting ever held in which the annua
meetings of Dublin and London have partici
pated had its session in Richmond, Ind The
conference considered the question, sis it de
sirable that all yearly meetings held in tn,
world should adopt one declaration of Chris
| tian doctrineP The sense of the meeting
was announced by the chair as affirming tn
question. The chairman further announce;
that the sense of the meeting was that tn
| church had mission to perform, and shout,
| formulate its doctrines. A committee of fiv
was appointed to summarize the conclusion
| of the conference.
The following telegram has been received
BROWNSVILLE, Tex, Sept. "a, 1887. Pleas
] contradict kilograms sent from here relating
to the deS astation by a storm in this city
The state of things was greatly exaggerate
and misrepresented. But very little damag
was done. We are fully able to care TO
sufferers, If there are any.
tSigned J. A. MICHEL.
Mayor pro ten.
FOREIGN.
MI